The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-10-06

chants clerks, who pal5 their hair in tn,
middle because of enlargement of tn,
brain, but who haven't sense enough tt
farm protitably, and therefore desert til,
old homesteads to find au easier way te
make @ living?
Ii agriculture is our principal bushes.
why not educate farmers? Why not de
vote oil the money we can spare to train
ing farmers and mcchanics-th first tc
develop our agriculture, tho others tc
establish manu- features among us anC
give our farmers home market? Will
the supply of lawyers, preachers anG
doctors run out? Not bit OF danger
WOtfOrd, Furman, Erskine, Harvard
Yale, Princeton, d thousand classical and
literary institutions at homo and abroad
will keep up the supply.
But, says somo adherent of DR.. Thorn.
well, they will not bo Homogeneous. ,
Public men thus trained will not bc
united, they will not think aliko, &c, &c.
| There would be no nucleus for q "ring. y
L grant you; and there would be q healthy
current of new thought and diverse opi-
MONS brought back which might in time
evolve some statesman who can show us
q way to rebuild our shattered fortunes,
without depending on "Northern capital
and brains" alone. The only Carolinian
who has q worldwide fame got his cdu-
cation outside tho State, and it is easy to
believe that if moro of our public mon
had been thus educated there would be
less of provincialisms, stagnation and
| sclf-ldolatry among us. The South Car
olina College has produced some great
men, but it is sad to see many Of it's
alumni and faculty opposing progress
and lighting the battlo of Bourbonism.
!he Rev. John Jasper swears the "sun
do move" Some men in high places in
South Carolina are ready to say to the
Nineteenth century, "Stop, stand still'
But L have got switched off from cd. {"
and his arguments, and [ will try to get
back: l. will only y say that the South
Carolina College has descended from the
sought to anchor it, and mixing mcchan-
lcnl and manual labor in ever so small q
degree with its purely mental training is
dragging its mantle in the dust for money,
and trying to accomplish the chemical
lmposslbility of mixing oil and water.
The classical and literary clements have
always overshadowed and swallowed up
any technical Or practical annex in every
mixed school or college that has ever
tried 1T; and SO it has been, and will con-
tlnuc to be, in this State. [ DEFY stD. !"
or any one else to refute tho assertion.
And now L make another, namely, that
not five per cent. Of the graduates of the
literary colleges and universities ever
farm. / have abundant proof ii any one
disputes the fact. The matter then re-
solves itself into this shape: A college
which hopes or intends to educate men
who will return to tho farm must do two
things. First, make agriculture it's lead
ing feature, and second, require manual
labor during the whole course of study.
NOw, CD. was SO rash as to claim that
the South Carolina College is carrying
out the Federal law more fully than the
Mississippi College, because it has in q
small way developed its mechanical an
mex, and because, as he alleges, the Mis-
sissippi College does not afford 'libe-
raj" education.
Every reader Of The News and Courier
is familiar with the clause of the Act OF
1862, which describes the kind of college
intended to be established. 1t expressly
states that its ''lcading object shall be to
teach such branches Of learning as are
related to agriculture and the mechanic
arts, nc. 'Lcading! leading! LEADINGw
| write 1t III capitals so "D.".and oil his
brother sophists can sec it. When they
come to construc that oft-repeatcd sen
tcnce they never see "leading" Mt all.
They cannot attach f1y meaning to
practical, but jump 18th gladdened
hearts to the words, "Without excluding
classical studies," and Liberal" al
though these words are only an eXcres-
ccnce, and not essential to understand
the sentence.
Then, again, they seize on the words
to 'promote the education of the indus
trial classes in the several pursuits and
professions of lifc''-'' several pursuits
and professions. Here is warrant enough
for teaching anything. But who is to be
taught? The sons of "Onco lordly plan
tcrs?" The sons Of lawyers and rich mon,
such as constitute the bulk of the students
at the South Carolina College? Oh, no!
The "lndustrial classes" says the law.
Well, who are the industrial classes in
South Carolina? "D. "has answered this
question for me. He says, "YYo are an
| agricultural people and likely to remain
| so In spite OF booms," nc. This Federal
money was donated to establish col
! lcge-mnrk you, not an "anneX" to a
univcrsity-whose leading object should
| be to teach the children of the industrial
| classes to become good farmers and me-
chanics. The classics were not to be
| OAOluItSu IL ID WIS 4Olluu pruCUlCuDlC
and the money held out. Military tao
tics were 'included" and provision made
for sending an officer Of the United States
army to teach them.
"Liberap' is q mountain, "practical" q
molc-hill, in cd. s" eyes. "Leading" he
cannot SEQ. He is willing for the ''once
| lordly planters" son to steal the poor
farmer boys chance for an education,
but military tactics" are beneath his
notice. What has become of this army
officer and his military tactics, oh Cd. p
Is he ut the South Carolina College man
ufacturing "dudes?" ooh, no; .ho is
It our military branch in Charleston. >
What is he doing there and why wasn't
the land scrip fund appropriated to youl
military branch? Initiating my good
friend, for l have really fallen in love
with "D.," he is so "candid," and Gear.
uost," anU "scrious," and "reverent,
and "ditpassionatc, and fair. CD viii
pause for a reply" But then the mill
tary branch may be fulfilling the Fedora
law and educating the children Of tic
Industrial classes to become farmers anC
mechanics.
Let us SEQ. | saw not long ago in Til,
News and Courier q statement of tbt
resent occupation Of the Citadel QIadu